On the risks of thoughts entangled in space (i.e., thoughts entangled in metaphors or abstract notions used to describe concrete facts, happenings, or events): … all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.[1] George Eliot, Middlemarch. ‘Capita a ognuno di noi, sul serio o per scherzo, scoprire che…
With this article, I want to make a point on the main traditional presuppositions and personal assumptions I have presented so far concerning the meanings of the concepts of space and place. The basic consideration on which I have founded my research on the concepts of space and place concerns the belief that concepts have not fixed meanings: they may…
“… static patterns of value are divided into four systems: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social patterns and intellectual patterns. They are exhaustive. That’s all there are. If you construct an encyclopedia of four topics – Inorganic, Biological, Social and Intellectual — nothing is left out. No ‘thing’, that is. Only Dynamic Quality, which cannot be described in any encyclopedia, is…
I continue the series of articles on the relation between architecture and the environment with a brief contribution I originally presented at a conference call promoted by the Landscape Research Group at the International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture in 2012. The theme of the call was Ethics and Aesthetics of Architecture and the Environment, and the title of…
The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) — has completely changed the appearance of our cities for months: during the lockdown period, the virus that caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19, literally transformed the familiar places we were used to, into ghost territories. Image 1: Places are…